Gabriel Núñez, is a Spanish molecular biologist and immunologist who is known for leading one of the first groups that identified NOD1 and NOD2, two important intracellular pattern recognition receptors.[1] He is currently the Paul de Kruif Endowed Professor at the department of pathology at Michigan Medicine.[2] In 2019, he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine for his many contributions to the basic sciences in the field of medicine.[1]